Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-06-27
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e0r,Wo IN the aggregate valusfion.
n Penness, proprietor Of the steam
Vii q Cuftis Corner vas u work on the
steep-sav. Thursday. when a slab caught 10
the saw and fev back and hit him iust under
the eye and Knocked him down and cut q long
easn IN his face. from which the blood flowed
freeiy. Had ii hit one inch higher be would
have lost the eye.
CUMBERLAND,
some enterprising man recognizing the
necessity OF some guide to the great and DOB.
oIous village of Brunswick has gotten nm and
ouers Tor sale pocket edition that will ena-
pie any one no matter how great str anger. to
nno MS .ay from one point to another through
10 labyrinth of densely crowded streets.
correspondent of the Oxford County Ad
seniser says that Mrs. George Il. Green has
received . curious animal sent in q box by
mail oy her brother, Granville Buck, ESQ.,,
rom New Mexico. He 10 called . horned
iioR put 10 not amphibious like our common
hog' hviag on the land and seems afraid of
water. In shape and movements be resembles
the mud turtle. never leaping but waddling
With kind of labored motion. His entire
oooy 70 covered With scales representing many
beautiful colofs. Each scale, the head and
sides OF the body are armed with short, sharp
nofns, much like those of the cactus or prick
| y pear rendering him bad subject for mas
tlcation by carniverous birds or animals. He
Is said to be perfectly harmless and very fond
OF music. He eats but little; one fy 10 said
to sufice for ninety days.
The teams of John Dennett and Luther
Stevens are hauling from the foot of High.
land Lake to the stream bv the depot, Harri.
man Co.'S pine. This firms boom ct the
foot OF the lake contains 400 feet, and
they have another lot of pine, 100, 900 feet, vet
to be driven down the lake. Bridgton News
HANCOCK.
Guests are constantly arriving at Bar
Hsrbor The West End Hotel opened
wednesday. and the Louisburg will open on
Monday. June 27.-The Indians have arrived
and gone into camp on the shore in the rear
OF Mr.. A. W. Ellis store. at Eddy brook.
A bell tower forty feet high is being
erected on Mount Desert Rock. During
foggy weather the bell will strike four times
a minute. Another bell tower is being con-
structed at Bear Island. Southwest Harbor.
| Castne will raise the money, lately voted
in aid of the Castine and Bangor railroad by
| a town loan, the town issuing bonds 1t the
rate of per cent One half the money to
be raised when the road IL half finished, the
remainder at its completion, a sinking fund
to gradually pay of the Indebtedness, BY
raising $500 per amman after the third year,
was also voted
| During a thunder shower, Wednesday
afternoon, the barn of Mrs. Joseph P.
Thomas in Bluehill was struck by lightning
The bolt entered at the ridgepole, passed down
the rafter and into q lot of about 800 pounds
of hay. An alarm was Immediately given
and in few minutes more than fifty men
were on hand The hay was q total loss
damage to barn small.-Grindle & Conary at
bluehill Falls. are getting all the fish they
| can handle, and are putting up from eight to
ten thousand cans of sardines daily
kENNEBEc.
The Waterville Mail reports that the Tcon-
ic National Bank has surrendered its three
per cent bonds, and deposited $500 four and
one half per cents as SCI urity for circulation
These changes reduced the national bank cir
culation, issued by our three banks, from
836O,OOO to $4,000. The contraction as
shown BY these figures is more apparent than
real, however, for these patonal notes have q
way of staying out, and end their way into
the Treasury very slowly.-DOw Greene
are to build an addition to their coal shed,
eighty feet long by thirty feet wide. The en-
CINE and splitting machine will be moved to
| the front of the shed, and the remainder used
for storage. They have put in an endless
rubber belt elevator, which takes the wood
from the splitting machine and carries it to
any part of the building desired.
KNOX.
The Rockland Opinion is informed that
sheriff Irish was notified Thursday morning
| that three buildings at Searsport were broken
| into the previous uight-the stores of A. J.
Nickerson. and Capt. Nichols, and the office
of Henry Grant. The burglars had hard
luck, not finding anything they could carry
away that was OF value. At any rate they
took nothing. But a reward of 5000 is of.
fered for their apprehension.
Gen. j. ID. Rust Of Rockport, met with .
serious accident Wednesday afternoon.
While looking after some work in his lumber
yard he slipped and fell on a large spike,
hurting him very badly. not being hardly
able to move at the present time Friday 1t
10 hoped that he will be all right again in a
short time.
SAGADAHOC.
The Bath Times saws: About a year ago
Mr.. p. o. Rogers hired man came up from
Phipsburg to see the circus. While endeav
oring to enjoy his holiday just right, he drank
| so much rum that it was a week or so before
he again reported at the farm, and possibly
our readers will recollect that while under a
spun VI uCpiCssiou III IcCovcEiHk lEou HIS uc-
preston in recovering from hi. debauch. he
took dose of Paris green which killed him.
1t is a striking coincidence that q hired man
from the same locality attended the circus IN
| Bath last Tuesday, and following in the
treacherous footsteps of the unfortunate man
of q year previous, he got very drunk and
did not return to the farm. Wednesday he
was seen on the streets, still drunk. Will he
return to Phipsburs and complete the strik-
ing parallel BY stuffing the poison down his
neck and leaving suicide for his employer
to bury ?-Arbor M Duley, ship carpenter,
employed on the Deerine schooner being built
at Houghtone yard. cut his foot with broad
axe Thursday afternoon, inhicting q severe
wound, which required several stitches.
1000 ton schooner at Donnelrs yard is nearly
framed out.
The Richmond Bee says: Geo. W. john
son, the submarine diver, assisted by J. II.
Knights. recently examined the old piers of
the Eastern river lower bridge, in the inter-
ests of parties who are to rebuild the struc-
ture. They have also repaired the railway at
the New England Ship-building Company's
dock at BAHIA few days since, Michael
Scott, employed At the shoe factory, attempt
ed to clean out Q cement barrel by means of
Are. Unfortunately the cement became ie-
nited, and in q twinkling Michasrs right hand
and wrist we're severely burned, while the
scorchine flames peeled the skin from bis